Thieves have never dominated WvW.
What? For the majority of this game, thieves have been far the most used roaming class, to the point at times against certain servers you would face more thieves when roaming than every other class put together, that is known as ‘dominance’.
They might be annoying and for a time strong in 1v1 matches but they have always been found lacking in skirmish and large group play.
Clearly a learn to play issue if you think a class that has generally been exceptional at +1, had one of the strongest skills in the game at saving other players in small scale, has been in focus party in GvG most of the time, etc has not been strong in skirmishes.
As for large scale, in that case why are you crying about engy/scrapper & mesmer/chrono, the first of which has been and still is surplus to requirements for large scale and the second one is of niche use for utility or focus party and is vastly outnumbered by necros, guards, revs & eles (and previously warriors).
There are clearly some classes/builds that require more skill to play. There is also complexity in skirmish where a well built team timing their abilities can beat a significantly larger force. This is an action combat MMO and skill plays a large part.
LOL, this game has a low skill cap, the only thing that ups the skill really is conquest mode PvP, WvW is a total joke, roaming or stupid 1v1 duels are rock, paper, scissors, of course that 90% of WvW players basically can’t play the game might give you the delusion combat skill matters, it doesn’t, if you have two competent players what decides the matchup in most cases is just the build or RNG in this “highly” skilled game.
As for “action combat”, not really, GW2 is like a really dumbed down version aimed at casual players, most of the combat is auto targeted just like a traditional MMO, having the odd skill shot, dodge, etc hardly makes it CS (something that actually has a high combat skill cap), beyond that in terms of thought and awareness GW2 requires less than many other MMOs (their implementation of conquest aside which is much higher skill cap than most MMO PvP formats), managing cooldowns is faceroll in this game, no energy management on most classes, etc.
Most of us know pure balance cannot exist but questioning if certain classes/builds skew too far outside the norms should be part of a larger healthy discussion about the game mode. Getting kitteny about questioning if a class or build is OP or not serves no purpose. Bringing up past examples of balance issues as justification for something (still not sure what) makes no sense at least to me. I still do not understand your basic counter point that the current meta is very bunker heavy.
Again learn to read, I wasn’t justifying anything, someone simply stated that they preferred the current meta to when thieves dominated, you started goign on about thieves in the current game, I stated that was irrelevant to what the guy said.
Maybe you are new, or just not very observant, but the classes in WvW have never been remotely balanced in 3 years, Anet largely ignore WvW when it comes to balance, and the few times they do make a change related to WvW it is largely for large scale combat, not roaming/small groups, there is nothing to “justify” you are QQing about your perceived lack of balance, in a game mode that never had any, and 2 of the classes you are QQing about are overall poorly reperesentated in WvW, your thread is pointless.
Hello tanky, those folks survive for a few moments to run out of the red rings :\ Good if you’re the one that survives, bad if its the enemy that does